You Were The Sort That Men Forget Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EEFE GGHG IIJI| You were the sort that men forget | A |
| Though I not yet | A |
| Perhaps not ever Your slighted weakness | B |
| Adds to the strength of my regret | A |
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| You'd not the art you never had | C |
| For good or bad | C |
| To make men see how sweet your meaning | D |
| Which visible had charmed them glad | C |
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| You would by words inept let fall | E |
| Offend them all | E |
| Even if they saw your warm devotion | F |
| Would hold your life's blood at their call | E |
| - | |
| You lacked the eye to understand | G |
| Those friends offhand | G |
| Whose mode was crude though whose dim purport | H |
| Outpriced the courtesies of the bland | G |
| - | |
| I am now the only being who | I |
| Remembers you | I |
| It may be What a waste that Nature | J |
| Grudged soul so dear the art its due | I |
Thomas Hardy
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